Our Purposeful People Character Trait for the month of May is Creativity! Creativity is “using your imagination to create something new or solve a problem.” Opportunities to be Creative are all around us! How can you find ways to be Creative as a family this month? Creativity is 1 of 3 traits we will focus on throughout the year that helps students Be Well. Throughout school, students will be developing skills like emotion regulation, positive self-talk, and stress-management.

As we enter the final months of school be on the lookout for updates about upcoming activities!

Proud to be a Husky!

Love,

Ms. Campbell & Mr. Pride

KSPS PBS is offering some FREE camps this summer. Registration is currently open exclusively to Grant families and will open to the public on May 1st. Be sure to get your registration in now before it fills up! See the flyer below for more information.

When to Keep A Child Home From School

It is important for the health of all students, staff and families that your child not attend school when they are sick. The following guidelines are appropriate reasons to keep your child home from school:

• A fever of 100 degrees F or higher in the last 24 hours. Your child should be fever free (without the use of fever reducing medicines) for 24 hours before returning to school.
• A consistently goopy, runny nose.
• Drainage from the eye and/or redness of the eyelid or skin around the eye.
• A bad cough-one that you wouldn't want your well child to be around.
• A sore throat, especially with fever or swollen glands in the neck.
• Shortness of breath or other problems with normal breathing.
• A child that seems ill-unusually tired, pale, or difficult to awaken, headache or body aches; seems confused or irritable, and/or lacks normal appetite.
• A rash that is associated with fever or severe itching.
• Vomiting with/without diarrhea within the last 24 hours. Your child should be free of vomiting or diarrhea for 24 hours before returning to school. NOTE: A child who has one episode of bloody diarrhea or two episodes of diarrhea at school must be sent home and cannot return until the diarrhea has resolved. Some diarrhea may be associated with bacteria or virus. If your child has severe diarrhea you should contact your health care provider.
• Your child needs to remain at home 24 hours after starting an antibiotic.
• Any contagious disease such as chicken pox, influenza, whooping cough or gastroenteritis.
• As directed by your health care provider.

If you have any questions, please contact Nurse Heidi Hash at 509-354-2785.

Free Preschool Information

Free Preschool: Spokane schools are now accepting applications for preschool enrollment for fall of the 2024-25 school year! Applications are available in the office, online at  SPS Early Learning , or by contacting Celina, family support specialist, at celinah@spokaneschools.org or 509-354-2774.

The Gonzaga Women's Soccer team recently visited Grant. They went into the classrooms and read a book with our students. Thank you, Bulldogs, for spending time with our Huskies!

In Science, the 2nd graders repurposed note cards. The challenge was to make a tower that was taller than 12 inches or strong enough to hold a large book. Look at these engineers!

William enjoyed looking at the worms through a magnifying glass!

Ms. Blalack's class had a great time visiting Riverfront Park to take a walking tour of the park as part of the EXPO '74 50 Year Anniversary.

Mrs. Cornmesser's class is learning about the life cycle of butterflies. They are patiently waiting for the caterpillars to form their chrysalis and turn into beautiful butterflies!

Ms. Lipsker's first grade researchers were hard at work!

Mrs. Evola's students are working hard using tiles to build rectangles with different areas but the same perimeter! Also, Frances and Emma were twinning!